Philosophy Quotes

"May and June. Soft syllables, gentle names for the two best months in the garden year: cool, misty mornings gently burned away with a warming spring sun, followed by breezy afternoons and chilly nights. The discussion of philosophy is over; it’s time for work to begin."

- H. Peter Loewer

"Baseball is not life. It is a fiction, a metaphor. And a ballplayer is a man who agrees to uphold that metaphor as though lives were at stake."

- David James Duncan

"A good life is not a place at which you arrive, it's a lens through which you see and create your world."

- Jonathan Fields

"We live as we dream--alone...."

- Joseph Conrad

"Ordinary men hate solitude. But the master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe."

- Lao Tzu

"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

- John Keats

"The night is the mother of thoughts."

- John Florio

"Act without expectation."

- Lao Tzu

"There’s no such thing as fair or unfair in battle. There is only victory or in your case, defeat."

- Vegeta

"The history of the world is the world's court of justice."

- Friedrich Schiller

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."

- William Faulkner

"History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies."

- Alexis de Tocqueville

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes."

- Mark Twain

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."

- C. S. Lewis

"The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship."

- William Blake

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival."

- C.S. Lewis

"I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."

- J. Robert Oppenheimer

"Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it."

- W. Somerset Maugham

"It's not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It's part of the deal we made."

- Mitch Albom

"The meaning of life is that it stops."

- Franz Kafka

"For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death."

- William S. Burroughs

"The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."

- Oscar Wilde

"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too."

- Marcus Aurelius

"If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future."

- Winston Churchill

"When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness."

- Alexis de Tocqueville

"Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them."

"How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die."

"Friendship is a beautiful journey that lasts a lifetime."